According to wiki, the cellar door idea is attributed to Tolkien, and cellar door has its own Wikipedia entry. Research has of course been conducted into phonaesthetics, surveys have also been carried out to generate lists of words that people think are beautiful or elegant. Here are a few from Dr Beard's top one hundred:
Diffuse – disperse, spread, disseminate
Effervescent – fizzy, sparkling, bubbling; lively, vibrant, vivacious
Ephemeral – short-lived, transient, fleeting
Epiphany – sudden perception or intuitive grasp of meaning or essence; illuminated discovery or realization
Evanescent – vanishing like vapour
Gossamer – delicate, sheer, flimsy, filmy, transparent, diaphanous, gauzy
Halcyon – calm, peaceful, untroubled, quiet, still, heavenly
Languor – laziness, indolence, slowness, dreaminess, lethargy
Lassitude – tiredness, exhaustion, inertia, apathy
Lilt – cadence, inflection
Luxuriate – enjoy, savour, relish, delight in
Nebulous – vague, hazy, imprecise, ill-defined
Panacea – cure-all, universal remedy, magic potion
Penumbra – partial shade or shadow, obscurity, uncertainty
Plethora – overabundant, surfeit, excess, glut
Scintillate – to be brilliant, animated; to sparkle
Serendipity – chance, destiny, fate, luck, providence, fortune
Susurrus – rustling or whispering sound
Symbiosis – cooperative relationship between dissimilar entities
Got a favourite beautiful sounding word or two? I like Ithaca and epistemological.
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